comment #1

mrm says ...

Excellent.

comment #2

Eloi Wrath says ...

Shite.

comment #3

Eloi Wrath says ...

At least it has the promise of nudity though. But two leads who seem to have dialled the smug up to 11.

Hathaway's performance in Rachel Getting Married was the worst thing I've ever witnessed, and that includes seeing an elderly gentlemen having a heart attack on a countryside stroll when I was a child.

comment #4

Jeffrey Wells says ...

That's a ridiculous thing to say. She all but hit it out if the park. Saying what you've said is, like, "what?"

comment #5

lawnorder says ...

Yet another trailer that attempts to hide the "serious illness" plotline.

comment #6

Snoop Marlo says ...

Is the 'serious plotline' the fact that he cant get it up (hence the viagra angle)?

Jeff: Not sure why you think this is Oscar material?

comment #7

mybrainismelting says ...

Rachel Getting Married is a screech-a-thon, a navel-gazing Ordinary People wannabe. It's also further evidence that after Silence of the Lambs, Demme completely lost interested in directing.

I love Hathaway and she will win an Oscar one day but let's please not bring up that piece of community theater. It felt like a 20 year-old girl had written it in her Theater 101 class. Ugh.

comment #8

matt cousens says ...

I expected a less sappy tone from this. This is disappointing. And yeah, lawnorder, that was my thought as well...

comment #9

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Hathaway is a pretty poor actress, IMHO. A little too theatrical, showy, over the top? I dunno. But you can almost always catch her acting, which is never really a good thing unless you're doing the winky-wink movie star thing. She doesn't really have enough sheer charisma or force of personality to pull that off, either, which kind of strands her in no (wo)man's land. Kind of like a female version of Giovanni Ribisi.

Not a perfect analogy, really, but it's all I've got right now.

comment #10

zombiestrike says ...

You mean because the Oscars will nominate her for anything, right? Because A) I don't quite believe that and B) this looks embarrassing.

comment #11

Jeffrey Wells says ...

My nose knows. I can smell it. The film may be this or that, but Hathaway is on it. You're all a bunch of haters for hate's sake.

comment #12

Hip Hop Homey says ...

RGM was mostly crap, another libfest, but AH was the only good thing about it. Isn't this the film where she has cancer or something?

comment #13

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Yeah, Demme fell so off the radar after sweeping the Oscars for SotL -- a truly masterful genre piece -- that a new film by him doesn't even register for me; it actually hasn't for a long, long time. And that's a shame.

comment #14

matt cousens says ...

The movie just looks gay.

comment #15

mybrainismelting says ...

My only hate is directed at Rachel...I love Hathaway. She is a little actor-ly as mentioned above but I think she'll mature out of that.

comment #16

Rod32303 says ...

As the fuck always, fuckin' haters. Fuckin sad, wish you had a crack at her haters.

Please. This person's "actory" is that person's amazement. Give me an example of a performance that you think is sheer brilliance, and I'll find a critic who finds it a piece. of. shit.

When she gives her acceptance speech, all you haters take a shot.

comment #17

Zach says ...

Hathaway can do anything with just her eyes. RGM was excruciating to sit through, but she was great in it nonetheless. This trailer is sappy as hell, but I have no doubt she'll deliver, as she always does.

comment #18

LexG says ...

Can't believe the BULLSHIT I am reading. TEAM WELLS.

Hathaway is awesome, Rachel Getting Married is great, Demme is awesome. She absolutely deserved Best Actress for that, but lost to that blowsy fucking hambone hack who sucks.

Also her performance in HAVOC is Rourke-Pacino level genius, and she is a COMEDIC DELIGHT in Get Smart and just about anything she does.

She is FETCHING and classy and awesome and charismatic and was great in Brokeback Mountain, YOU WILL BOW TO HER.

HATHAWAY POWER.

comment #19

moviechick44 says ...

I also did not like Rachel Getting Married. I didn't like the camera work which distracted m from the performance to almost feeling annoyed.

As for this film, it's based off a true story a a Pfiser Corp. salesman ( Gyllenahaal ) who is selling Viagra and meets Hathaway, a person stricken with Parkinson's disease. You can get the book from your local library if you want to know more about the premise.

It did very well at one recent pre-screening and the rumor from this set when filming, was that's it's both lead actors career best performances. Add to that it's a freaking Ed Zwick flick. :)

comment #20

lazarus says ...

This does look rather slight for a supposed Best Actress winner. Even compared to something like As Good As It Gets.

As someone who never thought Silence of the Lambs was that great, Demme did a very impressive, daring job on Beloved, as did Oprah, who should have won an Oscar for her towering work.

Though it is hard to forgive him for remaking not one, but TWO classic films in the 2000's.

comment #21

LexG says ...

Hathaway in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED is a PERFECT PERFORMANCE and ABSOLUTELY RELATABLE, the way she would just blowse in and need constant attention and cause havoc and had to make everything about her. YES, that is life. THAT IS AWESOME. When I saw that I was thinking THIS IS MY DREAM WOMAN, this is the greatest performance a woman could POSSIBLY GIVE EVER whose name is neither Kristen Stewart nor Dakota Fanning. And Dakota was still li'l back then, so I wasn't thinking of her in those terms. It was Hathaway and Stewart, the only two actresses who can ACT with the ferocity of Daniel Day Lewis and have it be awesome and not GAY or CAMPY or repulsive.

Oh, and Helen Mirren. And Angelina. The four best actresses of ALL TIME.

YES.

comment #22

Andrea says ...

The only reason you think she is going to win is because she is young, pretty, and bubbly.

YAWN. I remember when actors actually had to have their film seen first before internet bloggers declared them the winner of the Oscar.

The trailer looks like a cute rom/com/dramedy. Nothing to declare a winner over but seeing you've been hyping her performance and the film here you seem to be anything but neutral this season.

If only Monique got the benefit of the doubt that Hathaway is getting from you from her trailer.

comment #23

lazarus says ...

I'm also surprised that Jeff didn't show any disgust for Gyllenhaal's corpulent, mop-top friend.

comment #24

LexG says ...

"The only reason you think she is going to win is because she is young, pretty, and bubbly."

In the words of THE MIGHTY SERGEANT MERSERVE: That's the way it oughta be... always.

HOT CHICK POWER.

comment #25

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

"Also her performance in HAVOC is Rourke-Pacino level genius"

But not quite on the level of K-Stew's Brando/Dean turn in Twilight series, right? You're entertaining, dude, but your endless hyperbole gets really fucking tiresome. Hathaway in Havoc doesn't even give half the performance of Rourke in Double Team (although maybe on par with Rodman's thespian showcase), let alone his incredible mid-eighties run of Rumble Fish, Pope of Greenwich Village, Year of the Dragon, 9 1/2 Weeks, Angel Heart, and Barfly.

Someone really needs to take away your keyboard for the remainder of the evening, or perhaps you'll just be too busy watching that Hollywood's Hottest Feet special on E! right now (made ya look!).

And I think we've all read enough of your bow-age posts to know exactly why you liked A-Hath in Brokeback Mountain.

comment #26

lipranzer says ...

I really liked Hathaway in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, and she was one of the few things I liked about Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. And she looks like she could be good here.

However, this looks like the same kind of film Edward Zwick has delivered in the past - stories that ask interesting questions, but are only interested in giving pat answers to them.

comment #27

Metome1 says ...

Jeff never wants to acknowledge Jake Gyllenhaal's existence but he seems excellent in this trailer. I think he and Anne have great chemistry.

comment #28

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Hathaway's not even that hot, and she gave exaaactly the kind of performance you claim to despise in Burton's Alice. Shrill, campy, screechy, embarrassing.

Awful.

comment #29

Andrea says ...

"Jeff never wants to acknowledge Jake Gyllenhaal's existence but he seems excellent in this trailer. I think he and Anne have great chemistry."

He looked just as good if not better than her yet he doesn't get mentioned and the nearly 15-20 other ladies mentioned this year in Best Actress only have a 40% chance to win now!

Who says Hollywood is only cruel to women?

comment #30

Wrecktem says ...

Ed Zwick directs a Ephronesque dramedy and Wells seriously thinks it's Oscar-bait? It looks ATROCIOUS, like Mixed Nuts raped The Holiday and this was the aborted offspring.

comment #31

moviechick44 says ...

Here is one review...

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway lead a great cast of regulars (including Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt) in 'Love and Other Drugs,' the story of a promiscuous and ambitious pharmaceutical salesman (Gyllenhaal) getting his start in the Ohio market with his (and his mentor's) sights set on the big game in Chicago. His life is turned sideways when he meets the beautiful Maggie (Anne Hathaway), an artist with stage-one Parkinson's and a growing skepticism for love. Throw in a raunchily pathetic younger brother (Josh Gad), a hilarious sales partner (Oliver Platt), and a violent former Marine (Gabriel Macht) as the #1 competition, and 'Love and Other Drugs' quickly becomes one of the funniest films in years.

The film, which is like 'Up in the Air' with more humour or '(500) Days of Summer' with less quirk, is fantastically acted by the leads and supporting ensemble of familiar faces. The writing is phenomenal with some of the freshest dialogue and wittiest banter I've seen since Howard Hawks's 'His Girl Friday.' The story is also very topical, especially in the days of the fight for healthcare reform. Director Edward Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) puts forth one of the best films of his career alongside a list of solid past work, creating some of the most heart-wrenchingly sad and gut-wrenchingly funny cinematic moments in a while. The film is also full of some of the hottest and funniest sex scenes I've seen in a long time, so the movie's humour isn't all guys will want in this romantic-comedy. Overall, 'Love and Other Drugs' is a great variation to the 2010 romantic comedies thus far, giving something worthwhile outside of the typical 'The Bounty Hounter'-type rom-coms.

Final Verdict: 9/10.

-AP3-

(Report from the March 25th pre-screening in Orange, CA.)

comment #32

DiscoNap says ...

yeesh on the plant review. Nevertheless, the trailer is hiding a lot, and I believe Wells read the script. I see where he's going with this.

comment #33

bobbyperu says ...

Sorry, Jeff is dead on, Rachel Getting Married is a raw, damned fine film and Hathaway is gutsy as hell in it. She's realistic and unlikable and anti-heroic and mean and f*cked up and generous and angry and hilarious in it -- where is the problem???? The scene where she addresses the wedding party only to derail the festivities with her own painfully uncomfortable monologue about her past trauma and recovery shows a mastery of tone on her part -- pitch black funny and fully tragic. But yeah, it sucks, she sucks, it's awful, Demme sucks, blah, blah, blah, all you malcontents know so much better.

comment #34

DiscoNap says ...

Lex, I didn't care for The Reader but Kate Winslet is one of the better living actresses and I'd imagine you basically know that.

That being said, it took me a second to even remember who won Best Actress two years ago.

comment #35

Chicago48 says ...

Why does it seem I've seen this movie before?

comment #36

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Lex hate Winslet because she's "fat."

comment #37

corey3rd says ...

has she been forgiven for dating the Vatican Investment Thief?

comment #38

Ray DeRousse says ...

This thing is straight out of the cookie cutter, isn't it?

Hathaway is kinda actorly as it has been mentioned, but she's pretty awesome, too.

Is it just me, or does her lighting seem a little harsh? I was shocked at how old she looked there.

comment #39

Jeffrey Wells says ...

Wells to Wrecktem: Without reading comprehension skills, you're going to have problems.

You wrote, "Ed Zwick directs a Ephronesque dramedy and Wells seriously thinks it's Oscar-bait? It looks ATROCIOUS, like Mixed Nuts raped The Holiday and this was the aborted offspring."

Read what I wrote above. "The film may be this or that, but Hathaway is on it." I didn't say the FILM is Oscar bait. I said HATHAWAY is.

How many cans of beer tonight? One too many, I'm guessing.

comment #40

Gordn27 says ...

Serious question - is "Love and Other Drugs" the most off-putting title ever?

I mean, I know there's a school of thought for incomprehensible titles being terrible, like '94 when Tim Robbins had 'The Hudsucker Proxy' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'.

But, seriously, "Love and Other Drugs".
1) It has love in the title, so guys won't want to see it
2) It has an ironic take on love in the title, so women probably won't want to see it.
3) It's so pat and stupid that it makes me dismiss the movie completely

comment #41

Gordn27 says ...

Also, just to point it out, Jeff has *seen* 'Love and Other Drugs'.

Of course, whatever the reason he was allowed to see it (which I'm not sure), you do have to remember how far on Zwick's team Jeff is. Jeff always goes ape-shit for his movies.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Unlike Jeff and most of the people who post here, I recognize that "personal bias" is fine. If you like Zwick's style, you're going to like his movies. That's just the way it is. Jeff like's Zwick's style a whole lot, far more than most critics who find him too safe and easy to fully embrace (but too talented to completely ignore), and that's cool.

Me, I think lipranzer nailed it. "stories that ask interesting questions, but are only interested in giving pat answers to them."

comment #42

Eloi Wrath says ...

"Hathaway's not even that hot, and she gave exaaactly the kind of performance you claim to despise in Burton's Alice. Shrill, campy, screechy, embarrassing."

Yes. She's as campy and shrill as Julia Roberts.

Does Rod ever say anything apart from "Fuck the haters?" He's like an SNL recurring character who wanders on stage from time to time and delivers his catchphrase.

comment #43

DiscoNap says ...

yeah Wells really went apeshit for Defiance and Blood Diamond...

comment #44

Eloi Wrath says ...

Gyllenhaal looks to be rocking Ben Affleck's laminated waterproof coif from Daredevil.

comment #45

Gordn27 says ...

disco - he's not in the tank to the extent that he gives everything Zwick makes four stars. It's just that Jeff's reviews are always near the top of the pile, comparatively. (He's the kid who ruins the grade curve.)

Compare his review of 'Defiance' (a movie he started tracking about a year before ANYBODY, and started defending as bad word of mouth grew, even before he saw it) to any other critic's review of it.

But, sure, Jeff's totally impartial.

comment #46

Lena says ...

I don't know about that, Jeff. Didn't you think last year that Cary Mulligan was going to win months before awards season kicked into high gear? I think Hathaway may get a nomination (which honestly I cannot see one bit from that trite and shrill trailer) but I think it's WAY too premature to make any guesswork right now being that there are so many films that have yet to be screened. Remember what happened last year with "The Blind Side" and how Sandra Bullock came out of nowhere to emerge as a frontrunner?

Speaking of Carey Mulligan (whom I prefer to Anne Hathaway--I really loved her beautifully subtle, smart and clean work in The Education), I think she has a good shot for Never Let Me Go. And speaking of young blonde actresses, there's also Hathaway and Gyllenhaal's Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine. The buzz on her and Ryan Gosling's performance was tremendous--I wish the film had a better release date though.

comment #47

DeeZee says ...

I can't deny she's hot, but this is basically Anne Hathaway playing a younger brunette version of Jules in a rom-com take on Middle Men.

comment #48

Glenn Kenny says ...

I LIKE Hathaway...I like her VERY MUCH...and I really don't understand where Wells' sense of smell is coming from here. If I had any money, I'd bet it all against.

comment #49

MrFlibble says ...

For all the pretentions of being something more than it is, this trailer screams shmaltz. It's a romantic comedy with a little highbrow attitude. Despite Anne Hathaway being absolutely gorgeous (and implied nakedness), there is nothing in here for a guy not out on a date.

comment #50

bluefugue says ...

Never got the hate for RGM. Hathaway turns in a strong, believable performance, and Demme has fun trying Dogme American-style.

comment #51

Josh Massey says ...

But did we really have to see the entire freaking wedding? Hathaway is fine in Rachel, but the movie is a monumentally annoying piece of shit.

comment #52

Hip Hop Homey says ...

RGM is NOTHING but liberal tripe.

comment #53

THE MovieBob says ...

Hathaway may just be one of the four of five most beautiful women on the planet, at least among those who've been photographed.

That said, she looks good in this, but the movie? Eh... even before reading Moviechick's what-I-assume-is-a spoiler, just the innocuous-yet-suspicious-classy trailer and the word Oscar immediately had me thinking "Okay, so she's sick/dying of something, right?"

If so... yegh, I'll see it - but it's gonna be rough and if she actually makes me "buy" it I'll say she deserves the win. That's how my Grandma went, and it ain't pretty or dramatic, it's GHASTLY; permanently in my any-way-but-this file.

comment #54

Lena says ...

Omigod. I forgot about Natalie Portman in Black Swan, which will play at Toronto and Venice's Film Festivals. She certainly has Oscar buzz attached to her performance; she also has the necessary youth and beauty quotient that makes Jeff and all the other men on this board think she's a shoo-in for an Oscar nod (if not the win).

comment #55

DeeZee says ...

Lena: Judging by the script, Black Swan's a bad remake of Perfect Blue.

Anyway...
Uni sinks a fortune into Battleship.
Animated spin-off terminated?
Brolin ready to brawl over Tillman rating.
Craig up for more Bond, if it happens.
Congrats, Toy Story 3 and Milos.
Saldana, Vartan and Besson: together at last?
You might wanna keep it under your hats.
Harry Potter split details.
More pics.
Also via Dark Horizons:
Willis and Levitt: together at last?
More on Red State premise.
Not looking good for Scott Pilgrim.

comment #56

Dan Revill says ...

Screw the Rachel Getting Married hate. That movie was one of the best of 2008. Devastating performances all around.
As for Hathaway, she is one of a very select few of young actresses who is actually interesting to watch. I may not see all of her films in a theatre, but I will always pay attention to her when she's in something.
This looks sorta silly though. Wells may be onto something though with the Oscar talk. Guessing it's actually a cancer movie, so the romantic comedy is the 1st half, all tragedy in the 2nd. Should be fun.

comment #57

DeeZee says ...

Oh, and Freakonomics and Next Three Days trailers here.

comment #58

Chumley says ...

The funniest thing I've read on the internet today is:

"If you like Zwick's style..."

comment #59

LexG says ...

Since probably no one will read far enough down the front page, I felt I should repeat my PUBLIC SERVICE warning here that

SCOTT PILGRIM is the single most obnoxious, deadly unfunny, embarrassing, repulsive gay-camp spectacle I've ever seen EVER, absolute fucking MISERY to sit through, I can't believe Wells even went as easy on it as he did.

Disgustingly campy and shrill and if Edgar Wright likes vagina, I'd lose that fucking bet.

ZERO STARS.

comment #60

DeeZee says ...

Lex: That's how I felt about The Fifth Element.

comment #61

thatrader says ...

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts totally owned LexG's ass and no one wants to talk about that?

LexG, "Scott Pilgrim" looked like a giant piece of shit in the trailer, but for some reason, the reviews on this movie are over the top for it.

Will see it myself to see if you're right. My gut says anything starring Michael Cera is likely to be a giant piece of shit.

Year One, Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist?

comment #62

lazarus says ...

Hathaway one of the five most beautiful women on the planet? Not this fucking planet. Those eyes are too big and droopy. She's a charming girl but let's not get carried away.

comment #63

EdHavens says ...

I was amazed the trailer was able to go a whole 98 seconds before the first sappy inter-title card. That's a miracle in this day and age.

As for Hathaway... yeah, she's hot. Yeah, she's getting better as an actress. But if she, or Rachel McAdams, gets an Oscar nomination this year, it'll solely be because it's been a really lousy year for leading actress roles.

comment #64

royalonemn says ...

Don't sleep on Annette Bening!

Two great performances in one year (like Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet) and a consistently great, over due actress (like Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet). Oh, wait...Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet are the last two Best Actress winners. Imagine that.

Plus, there's a lot of respect for the Beatty-Bening relationship. Alec Baldwin basically sold his soul to get Kim Basinger the Oscar and you see it worked.

Annette for the WIN!!!

comment #65

DiscoNap says ...

DeeZee, that was so out of the blue I almost spit my cereal.

comment #66

DiscoNap says ...

P.S. as usual, you're wrong.

comment #67

Lena says ...

Royalonemn, I completely agree with you about Mrs. Warren Beatty. She gave two wonderful performances this year, particularly in the sadly ignored and poorly publicized (thanks Sony) Mother and Child where she was raw and gut-wrenching.

Honestly, I think SHE is the one who has a 60% (maybe more) chance of winning the Oscar. Plus--and I hate to get personal--but her personal story with her child--might also figure into the narrative here.

comment #68

NYContessa says ...

And what -- ? No one remembers AH's large, luminous eyes in the Devil Wears Prada??? I loved her in that movie.

comment #69

Princess of Peace says ...

This does not look like Oscar material to me. It might be good but not that good.

Bening was great in two films. It is a shame that Mother and Child was not marketed better. It is one of my favorite films of the year. Hathaway? Maybe she will get a nom if everyone else we haven't seen is not good. But a win?! I highly doubt it.

comment #70

Eloi Wrath says ...

Seems Hathaway's eyes get most of the credit for her acting.

Julia Roberts is the closest comparison I can think of. She's pretty but never seems to get the blood pumping like any other hot Hollywood actress does. Women love Hathaway, both for her choice of projects and the fact she's a consistent clothes horse in the pages of Vogue. People wax lyrical about her eyes and her smile, but she has a big face. Her actual acting, to me, is showy, always very self-aware, theatrical and shrill.

I nearly clawed my eyes out during that scene where she said she was "Sheba the God of Death" or whatever at the wedding dinner. And not for the reasons the filmmakers intended.

comment #71

Eloi Wrath says ...

I also remember hating the performance of her Dad in that movie, marvelling at how any actor could be so ludicrously hammy that they made Liza Minelli look like Sam Worthington. Turned out the guy is an actual circus clown. The whole damn film felt like a circus of clowns. If I could burn the negatives, I would.

comment #72

Josh Massey says ...

Heh, immediately I recognized the dad from the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" video, and it blew the rest of his performance for me.

comment #73

poseidon72 says ...

I so tired of people knocking everything. The camera adores this girl. She is the Julia Roberts of this generation. Not as popular at the boxoffice as Julia in her prime but she lights up the screen, is charming and can act!

comment #74

Jeffrey Wells says ...

It's all explained here, more or less:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/08/back_pages_1.php

comment #75

DeeZee says ...

Disco: "P.S. as usual, you're wrong."

http://tinyurl.com/29e7mlf

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comment #77

Gordn27 says ...

Chumley - granted, the "style" is more in his writing than his directing, but I find Zwick to be a fairly distinct writer/director. Not distinctly good, but very distinct.

comment #78

Bird says ...

Ann is definitely Jula Roberts territory here. You wouldn't even have to change the voice or laugh that much if you closed your eyes and watched this. But, with'em open, you'll see she even has early Julia Roberts hair.

It was kinda like watching Tom Everett Scott in "That Thing You Do!"

comment #79

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